By Doris
Amenyo, GNA
Accra, July.21, GNA – Our Lady of Assumption
Basic School (OLAS) has celebrated its 25th anniversary with a call
on teachers to frequently upgrade their skills.
Madam Esther Dzifa Ofori, Ghana’s Ambassador
to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and chairperson for the occasion said
teachers should upgrade their skills and introduce new methods of dealing with
children.
She said there were children who were stubborn
and for that matter teachers should find a way of dealing with them.
The anniversary was on the theme “Providing
Quality, Equity and Holistic Education-the impact of the Catholic Mission’’.
She said some children were fast learners,
while others were slow so teachers were supposed to identify all those children
in order to be on the same level with the students.
“Some are slow, some are fast and do not leave
the slow ones behind because every child has a talent, you only need to
discover it and this will depend on the teachers who have daily interaction
with the children’’. She said
Madam Ofori advised parents to encourage their
children to discover their talent rather than pushing them into areas they do
not have the passion for “if your child wants to be a carpenter, encourage him
and let him further his education to the highest level’’.
Ms Monica Hammond, Head teacher of the school,
in an interview with the Ghana News Agency said the school is one of the best
schools in the municipality when it comes to quality education.
She said the school, at the moment has
challenges such as lack of computers in the ICT laboratory and lack of
contemporary books in the Library for students to use.
Ms Hammond called on stakeholders, parents,
Non-Governmental Orgnisation (NGOs) to come to their aid in providing the
school with computers and to stock the library with books in order to enhance
quality education.
OLAS was established in 1993 as a private
school with a population of 15 boys and 22 girls and was integrated into the
public sector in 2003 with current population of 1,300 students.
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